Is Austerity a Mistake?
A new paper from researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogo ff, has set the wonk world ablaze by debunking…
Ideology
Tokenism 101
Last week, whether you parked at the 50 Yard Line or rolled on the Informative Avenue, the GOP’s much-vaunted new Latino outreach efforts did not appear to be going well. Even Senator…
April 14, 2013April 27, 2013
We’re all being trolled
Much has been made over the past few weeks of two of the younger, more attractive members of the Phelps clan publicly splitting with their mother and grandfather, Fred Phelps, and deciding…
March 2, 2013March 3, 2013
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things: the Unconscious Roots of Conservative Ideology
The ideal of democracy – a well-informed public engaged in good faith in a passionate, yet reasoned debate – has never truly existed. Still, if one removes the qualifiers from the previous…
February 24, 2013May 5, 2013
SOTU Liveblog
6:08 PM: Everybody got your drinking games prepared? Who will be the camera hog as POTUS approaches the podium? 6:12: Al Sharpton is old.Tweety is possibly drunk, as always. Late breaking no…
February 12, 2013February 12, 2013
How is the imminent threat of communism like a rainbow?
…whether or not you can see it, and how clearly, depends almost entirely on where you stand. In a fascinating paper (subscription required) on the similarities between left- and right-wing radicals, Herbert…